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New Film About Teachers Includes Coppell Schools Grad

A new documentary about teachers is coming to CBS this fall. The two-hour TV special Teach will focus on the year-in-the-life of four public school teachers during the 2012-13 school year. One of them is Lindsay Chinn, a 2003 graduate of Coppell High School. Chinn teaches at Martin Luther King, Jr. Early College in Denver, Colorado.

The project comes from Oscar-winning director Davis Guggenheim known for other education-related films like "Waiting for Superman" and "The First Year" as well as the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" featuring Al Gore.

The film will air Sept. 6. Check out the trailer below.

Stella M. Chávez is an investigative reporter for The Texas Newsroom, a collaboration between NPR and member stations around the state. She's based at KERA in Dallas and is currently reporting on how state government is working with federal agencies on immigration enforcement and border security.